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STLR Link Roundup – December 11, 2009

Judges and Facebook – Is it ok to be FB friends with lawyers? The Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee says no, reports the New York Times.

Michael Arrington and Crunchpad sues JooJoo for the joint tablet venture that so publicly went wrong, says Gizmodo.

The Environmental Protection Agency announces that greenhouse gases pose a danger to human health and environment. New federal and possibly international regulation are expected to follow, according to the New York Times.

Who will protect us from the robot invasion? Maybe lawyers will, a pair of scholars at Stanford University tells the San Francisco Chronicle.

The legal implications of new technology aren’t all covered in intellectual property classes – Andrew Breitbart’s Big Government blog looks at the possible use of eminent domain to take the “wind rights” of farmers and build green-friendly windmills.

Text messages are the new “digital lipstick on the collar” and are increasingly showing up as critical evidence in divorce cases, writes the New York Times.

The EU drops its antitrust case against memory-maker Rambus in exchange for concessions, according to the Associated Press.

A payroll and credit card payment processing company’s failure to protect itself from massive data breach was not grounds for a securities fraud case by shareholders. Law.com discusses the New Jersey District Court ruling.